Clothes-rack.



-s. T. HONDA.

CLOTHES RACK.

APPLiCATlON FILED DEC. I, 1916.

Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

ZNVENTDE v iii STANLEY r. Ronnie, or roLnnooHIo.

CLOTHES-BACK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented fiept. 41, 191?.

Application filed December 1, 1916. Serial No. 134,397.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STANLEY T. HONDA, a citizen of Russia, and residentof Toledo, in the countyof Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful.

Clothes-Rack; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and 62121613116- scription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to clothes'raeks, and particularly to improvements on the clothesracks described and claimed in my prior United States Letters Patent Nos. 1,180,436 and 1,208,052, dated April 25, 1916, and October 31, 1916, respectively.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and while, in its broader aspect, it is capable of embodiment in numerous forms, a preferred embodiment thereof in open position, with portions of the protecting curtain broken away, is illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates the wall plate having an opening 2 of V-form in its upper end for receiving a supporting nail 3, or other suitable projecting part. A bar 1 pivotally projects forward from the lower portion of the plate 1 and has a hat support 5 preferably pivotally rising from its outer end and provided above the bar with a forwardly projecting finger 6. A tongue 7 is slidingly mounted on the bar 4: and is provided above the bar with an opening 8 for permitting the upper end of the tongue to be hooked over the nail or project ing part 3. The tongue is intended to en gage any one of a series of notches 9 provided in the lower edge of the bar 4 at the inner end thereof and to cooperate with the plate 1 to engage the nail 3 and support the bar 4k in proper relation thereto, as is fully described in my said Patent No. 1,180,436. The bar 4 is adapted for supporting a plurality of clothes hangers, which may be removably hung thereon.

WViththe racks disclosed in my former patents the upper end of the tongue 7 some times works out on the nail or projecting part 3, especially if such part is substantially horizontal in position, and thereby permits a lowering of the outer end of the bar 4 with respect to the plate 1, as is apparent. The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide means for preventing the upper end ofthe tongue from working out in this manner from the plate 1. This is accomplished by turning the upper end of the plate 1 forward at a point slightly below the upper end of the opening 2 therein so that a portion of such opening is horizontally disposed and enables the upper end of the tongue 7, which is slotted and prolonged for such purpose, to extend upward tl'ierethrough, as shown in the drawing. It is thus evident that the top wall of the opening 2 cooperates with the upper end of the tongue 7 to prevent a forward movement of such end of the tongue away from the plate 1. This fea ture is found in practice to very materially enhance the practicability and connnereial value of the rack and overcomes a difficulty which has been present in racks made in accordance with the aforesaid patents.

A curtain 10 is carried by a slide frame 11 of Uform, the leg ends of which are slidingly mounted on a frame 13 also U- form which is pivoted at its open end to the plate 1 near its top for vertical swinging movements relative thereto and has its outer closed end straddling the upright 5 and resting on the linger 6, as fully described in my said former Patent No. 1,203,052. The curtain 10 is provided with a supplemental curtain 12 which is adapted to be thrown up over the top of the rack to cover a hat which may be disposed on the support and also to cover the top of the rack and the opening between the sides of the slide frame 11.

In attaching my improved rack to a .nail or other support of a similar nature, the openings 2 and 8 of the plate 1 and tongue 7 are placed over a nail 3 or the like with the upper end of the tongue projecting up through the opening 2 at the rear of the top wall thereof. The rack-bar i is then placed in horizontal position and supported in such position by the engagement of the lower end of the tongue 7 with the desired notch 9 in the bar. The bar 4 then acts as a lever member with the tongue 7 as its fulcrum and inasmuch as the outer end of the bar 4, especially when having an. article support-ed thereby, is the heaviest, the plate 1 has an upward thrust exerted thereon by the bar so that the lower end wall. of the opening 2 thereof has upward thrust claims.

; by Letters Patent, is i contact with the nail 3 while the tongue? end through the plate opening and at the exerts a downward bearing pressure on the rear of the top wall of such opening. 25 nail and is retained in contact:with the 2. @In combination, a wallplate having its plate 1 by reason of the interengaginp; of upper end provided with an opening and the tongue and plate. forwardly angled below the top wall of such I wish it understood that my invention is opening, a bar pivotally projecting forward not limited. to anyspecificconstruction, -ar-""f1'o'1n the plate below said opening -andli av 30 rangeinent or form of the 11 arts,-e;icept;inx ingQtslower.edgemotched, and a member so far as such limitations are specified in the having an opening in its lower end for slid- 4 a ingly receiving said:lmr iwith itslower-wall:

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STANLEY T. 'RONDA.

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